Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Epidemiology, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia.
Virology Research Center/Laboratory of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Conakry, Guinea.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Apr 26;17(4):e0011279. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011279. eCollection 2023 Apr.
In 2021, a patient died from Marburg virus (MARV) disease in Guinea and it was the first confirmed case in West Africa. The origin of the outbreak has not been identified. It was revealed that the patient didn't travel anywhere before the illness. Prior to outbreak, MARV had been found in bats in the neighboring Sierra Leone, but never in Guinea. Therefore, the origin of infection is unclear: was it an autochthonous case with spillover from a local population of bats or an imported case with spillover from fruit bats foraging/migrating from Sierra Leone? In this paper, we studied Rousettus aegyptiacus in Guinea as the possible source of MARV infection caused the patient death in 2021 in Guinea. We caught bats in 32 sites of Guéckédou prefecture, including seven caves and 25 locations of the flight path. A total of 501 fruit bats (Pteropodidae) were captured, including 66 R. aegyptiacus. The PCR screening showed three positive MARV R. aegyptiacus, roosting in two caves discovered in Guéckédou prefecture. After Sanger sequencing and phylogenetic analyses it was shown that found MARV belongs to the Angola-like lineage but it is not identical to the isolate obtained during the outbreak of 2021.
2021 年,一名来自几内亚的马尔堡病毒(MARV)病患者死亡,这是该疾病首次在西非得到确认。疫情的起源尚未确定。据透露,该患者在发病前没有去过任何地方。在疫情爆发之前,塞拉利昂的蝙蝠中已经发现了 MARV,但从未在几内亚发现过。因此,感染的源头尚不清楚:是当地蝙蝠种群的本地溢出病例,还是塞拉利昂觅食/迁徙的果蝠的输入病例?在本文中,我们研究了几内亚的埃及果蝠,认为其可能是导致 2021 年几内亚患者死亡的 MARV 感染的来源。我们在盖凯杜省的 32 个地点捕获了蝙蝠,包括 7 个洞穴和 25 个飞行路径地点。总共捕获了 501 只果蝠(翼手目),包括 66 只埃及果蝠。PCR 筛查显示,在盖凯杜省发现的两个洞穴中有 3 只埃及果蝠 MARV 呈阳性。经过 Sanger 测序和系统发育分析,发现的 MARV 属于安哥拉样谱系,但与 2021 年疫情爆发时获得的分离株并不完全相同。